23 NOVEMBER 1907, Page 19

"INDIA IMPRESSIONS."

[To THE EDITOR OP TILE "SP EGTAT011.1 SIR ,—With reference to your notice of my " India Impres- sions " in the Spectator of November 16th, will you allow me to say (as your reviewer appears to think some of the illustra- tions are from photographs) that the whole of the illustrations are from drawings of my own ? The full-page plates are from water-colour sketches made on the spot, and are selected from those shown at Messrs. Dowdeswell's gallery last summer. As to the political and economic question, I should not presume to offer a ready-made "plan" for the government of India, but I should rely on our own British principle of no taxation without representation. I think the claim of the natives to a share in the government of their own country is perfectly just and reasonable. A people of a country must know their own requirements better than strangers ; and if our objects in India were disinterested, we should endeavour to meet native feeling and aspiration in every possible way, and prepare them for the entire management of their own affairs ulti- mately,—but I know I am in a minority.—I am, Sir, &c.,

WALTER CRANE.